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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION (3)

Name

CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION - enable SSH compression

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION, long enable);

Description

curl_easy_setopt options                            CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION(3)



NAME
       CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION - enable SSH compression

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION, long enable);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass a long as parameter set to 1L to enable or 0L to disable.

       Enables built-in SSH compression.  This is a request, not an order; the
       server may or may not do it.

DEFAULT
       0, disabled

PROTOCOLS
       All SSH based protocols: SCP, SFTP

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://example.com");

         /* enable built-in compression */
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION, 1L);

         /* Perform the request */
         curl_easy_perform(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.56.0

RETURN VALUE
       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is  supported,  CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION  if
       not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | web/curl         |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3), CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING(3),



NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source       was       downloaded      from       https://curl.se/down-
       load/curl-7.83.1.tar.bz2.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://curl.haxx.se/.



libcurl 7.83.1                 November 26, 2021
                                                    CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION(3)